NEW AMERICAN GOSPEL

'''New American Gospel''' is the debut album of Lamb of God, released in 2000. It was the first release with Willie Adler on guitar. Prosthetic Records reissued ''New American Gospel'' in 2006. It is remastered and remixed with 4 bonus tracks. The remastered version contains a note on the inlay that explains why the sound of the album is less polished than their newer work. According to the inlay, it was in part due to time constraints as well as heavy drinking.
"Black Label" was released as a single.
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Contents

Background Information

Original Track listing

Remaster Track listing

Personnel

Notes

External links

Background Information

In the May 2006 issue interview with Revolver Magazine about the album reissue, Guitarist Mark Morton and Vocalist Randy Blythe talked about the meanings of the song on the album and information about them.
'A Warning- Blythe':
"A Warning" is one of my favorite tracks on that record. People forget now, but it was a little harder to be a fucking weirdo back then, You know what I mean? Now it's now so much of a big deal- you see frat boys with Slayer shirts or Slipknot shirts on, or whatever. But that song was about people looking at you as if you were a freak, metalhead, a punk rocker-whatever- and them being like, "Oh, my god, what a fucking loser freak!" and you just saying, "Yes, I am, so screw you."
'The Black Dahlia- Blythe':
"It seems kind of typical for guys in bands to have a serial-killer fascination. I don't-I just thought that particular Black Dahlia murder case [The still-unsolved 1947 slaying of aspiring actress Beth Short] was interesting, and it kind of panders to my film noir, romantic side. I romanticize about that time a lot in my head, and I took that whole story and put it into lyrics, so I could sit around and wear a fedora and smoke unfiltered cigarettes to it later. Call women "Dames" and stuff, you know? [laughs]."
'The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion- Morton':
"One of my favorites on the record, and it's still in the set to this day. You can really hear my nerves in cutting the guitar intro to that song- So much so I think we actually had to fade it up a little bit. [laughs] it was a real new piece of me, and it's pretty difficult to play. It's imperfect but it came out really cool."
'Pariah- Blythe':
"Pariah", was written about a certain individual who used to live in my beloved city, the former capital of the Confederacy, who I did not get along with too well. He was a fucking heroin junkie and was just an awful person. I had a couple of unpleasant run-ins with him and he was just a real Shitbag, basically. I despised him so much that I wrote a song about him."

Original Track listing

# "Black Label" – 4:53
# "A Warning" – 2:24
# "In the Absence of the Sacred" – 4:36
# "Letter to the Unborn" – 2:56
# "The Black Dahlia" – 3:19
# "Terror and Hubris in the House of Frank Pollard" – 5:38
# "The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion" – 4:10
# "Pariah" – 4:24
# "Confessional" – 4:01
# "O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E." – 5:15

Remaster Track listing

# "Black Label" – 4:52
# "A Warning" – 2:23
# "In the Absence of the Sacred" – 4:36
# "Letter to the Unborn" – 2:56
# "The Black Dahlia" – 3:19
# "Terror and Hubris in the House of Frank Pollard" – 5:37
# "The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion" – 4:10
# "Pariah" – 4:24
# "Confessional" – 4:01
# "O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E." – 5:14
# "Nippon" (Japanese Bonus Track) – 3:53
# "New Willenium" (The Black Dahlia) [Demo Version] – 3:06
# "Half-Lid" (A Warning) [Demo Version] – 2:28
# "Flux" (Pariah) [Demo Version] – 4:24

Personnel

★ John Campbell – Bass

★ Mark Morton – Guitar

★ Chris Adler – Drums

★ Randy Blythe – Vocals

★ Willie Adler – Guitar

Notes

★ Track 10 (O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E.) is an acronym for "Officer Dick Head Gets a Black Fucking Eye."

★ The song "Black Label" is featured in Tony Hawk's Underground 2.

★ There is no separate guitarist named "Duane". Duane is Mark Morton's middle name that was written in the line-up in the Metal Blade Records / Prosthetic release of "New American Gospel".

★ The song “Letter to the Unborn” contains no lyrics to read in the book of the CD. The song indeed has lyrics but according to Blythe, the song is very personal concerning the death of his daughter with his ex-wife. They were written before she was born. Because of all of this, he didn’t want the lyrics to be reprinted or read.

★ The song "Terror and Hubris in the House of Frank Pollard" features guest vocals by Steve Austin of the band Today Is The Day. Steve, along side Chris Adler, helped produce New American Gospel.

External links

★ ''New American Gospel'' lyrics